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BBL01: design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 12408ANG
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Wales
Location: Pembrokeshire
Directions to Site: Located 16 SE of Pembroke [Coordinates: 51° 41′ 4.92″ N, 5° 5′ 30.84″ W 51.6847, -5.0919]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Noted in the RCAHMW (Pembroke, 1925): "The font, of the Norman cushion type, has been scraped and coloured." The Monkton Rectorial Benefice page [www.revjones.fsnet.co.uk] notes a Norman font in St. Mary's. Noted in Thurlby (2006) in a long "List of scalloped table-top fonts in Pembrokeshire".

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: square (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Great Britain. Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments and Constructions in Wales and Monmouthshire, An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the County of Pembroke, London: H.M. Stationary Office, 1925
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006